Toy.



P. HUTT.

TOY.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 19. 1-918.

1,289,452 Patented Dec. 31, 1918.

PHILIP? HUTT, F FORESTVILLE, CON N ECTICUT.

TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 31, rats.

Application filed April 19, 1918. Serial No. 229,527.

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, PHILIPP How, a citizen of Austria, residing at Forestville, in

the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in toys, having particular reference to hand propelled, wheeled toys such as have certain parts operatively connected to the wheels for the purpose of effecting certain move-' ments of such parts as the toy is pushed along with the wheels in contact with the floor, and the-object of my improvement is to produce a toy having a representation of a rabbit at the front end and a dog at the rear end and so related and so operated both the rabbit and the dog will-appear to be animated and that it will, furthermore, appear as if the dog were chasing the rabbit, it being understood that the invention as disclosed may be made of difl erent sizes and changed in form in various ways without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a side elevation of my im proved toy.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation, on an enlarged scale, of the same with certain parts of the frame and handle broken away.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the same.

Fig. 4 is a rear elevation of the same.

The toy shown in the drawing is adapted to be propelled along the floor by being pushed by means of the upwardly and rearwardly projecting handle 10 that is connected to the frame 11. A representation of a rabbit is operatively mounted on the upper side of the frame 11 at the front end portion thereof and a representation of a dog 13 is similarly mounted in a general way at the rear end portion thereof.

The frame 11 comprises as a main element a bar 14 that extends longitudinally that serves to connect the two end portions, and has at the said end portions uprights for operatively supporting the rabbit and dog, comprising upright 15 at the front end and the upright 16 at the rear end.

The rabbit 12 is of plate-like form and has the body portion perforated for receiving a pivotal pin 17 by which it is mounted on the upper end of the front upright 15,

and in a similar way the dog 13 is pivotally mounted on the upper end of the rear upright 16 by means of a pivotal pin 18.

As a detail, the front upright 15 inclines upwardly and rearwardly and the rear upright 16 inclines upwardly and forwardly, so that there is clear open space between the rabbit 12 at the front and the dog 13 at the rear.

At the junction 19 of the front upright 15 and the bar 14 is operatively mounted the front wheel 20 and at the junction 21 of the rear upright 16 and the said bar 14 is the rear wheel 22.

As a detail, I prefer to make the front wheel 20 of appreciably smaller diameter than the rear wheel 22.

' The front wheel 20 is provided on one face with a pin 23 that serves as a crank-pin and is operatively connected to some part of the body of the rabbit 12 by means of a connecting rod 24, the point of connection between the said connecting rod 24 and the rabbit being to one side of the pivotal connection provided by the pin 17.

In a similar way the dog 13 is operatively connected to a crank-pin 26 on. the rear wheel 22 by means of a connecting rod 27, the point of connection being designated at 28.

The construction described provides that when the wheels are rotated a tilting or swinging movement is given to the animal devices connected thereto, such as to suggest the animals to be running, and if propelled in the forward direction, suggesting further that the dog'is chasing the rabbit.

By having the front wheel smaller than the rear wheel a relatively quicker oscillating movement is given to the rabbit than to the dog.

The rabbit is preferably made appreciably smaller than the dog, as shown.

I claim as my invention 1. A hand propelled toy comprising a frame, a wheel at one end of the said frame, a second wheel at the other end of the said frame, an animal device pivotally supported at each end of the said frame, a crank-pin on one face of each of the said Wheels, and

a connecting rod connecting each of the floor, and connecting rod mechanism opersaid crank-pins with the adjacent animal deatively connecting each of the said represenvice. tations with one of the said Wheels for im- 13 2. In combination. in a hand propelled, parting an oscillating movement thereto 5 wheeled toy, a representation of a rabbit at when the said Wheels are propelled along one end, a representation of a dog at the the floor. 7 other end, Wheels for contacting" with the PHILIPP HUTT. 

